I have never seen a bear in the wild. But I adore them, and would love to.

They are interesting creatures. Usually they do not want anything to do with humans, but since humans don't think like bears, sometimes there's trouble. A woman was killed by a bear in the Smoky Mountains a year or so ago, which is tragic. News reports, however, were a little goofy. Oh, nobody knows why the bear attacked her... then a few sentences later, said something about the bear cub.

Duh.

Almost any female animal with small ones, who feels a threat, will do whatever it takes to end the threat.